Scientific View on Religious Events NaimanbayevM.A. | Page 4

Event of human being time relative
The need for consistent years account appeared with the written culture
emergence and, foremost it was initiated with administrative needs. As a rule,
documents were dated with years of kings reign or important historical events; thus
primitive chronological tables were created, which should be used with great care,
as some of the reigns were referred as sequential, but actually they were often
synchronous (for example, in strife time), and similar "simplification" were
excepted. Urgent need for chronological calculations appeared with historical
science establishment, that is about the fifth century B.C. The easiest way of
dating was mutual relative dating of events: event A occurred X years before the
event B; event C occurred Y years after event B.
As a result of laborious work of thinkers of the past, B.C. and A.C. concept
was introduced, referring to the year of Prophet Isa (Jesus) birth whose name is
mentioned 25 times in the Sacred Muslims Book Quran. In the ancient chronicles
the date of Jesus birth was taken about 5505 year after the “world creation”.
Period of time when aster returnes to the same constellations after Earth
revolution around the Sun, to "the same star", is called the sidereal year. Based on
modern scientific studies it was established that value of the sidereal year is not
changed and it makes 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes and 9.6 seconds.
The birth of the Prophet Mohammad - Mawlid an-Nabi (in Arabic
translation - the Prophet birth) is celebrated on the third month of Rabiul-Awwal in
lunar calendar, and this holiday, as shown above, moves in time. That means that
Prophet birthday widely celebrated in Egypt, Syria, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco,
Pakistan and other Muslim countries is not marked under that star, where the Sun
and the Earth were in the day of Mohammad birth (pbuh and berakhot). Moreover,
Sunnis celebrating the Mawlid, mark it on 12th of Rabiul-Awwal, while Shiite
Muslims celebrate it on 17th of Rabiul-Awwal.
If this event occurred on April 22, 570 based on modern calendar (which, as
shown above, is fairly conventional, but this historical moment was recorded), it
should be celebrated on this particular day by all Muslims, when the Earth is
under the "Mohammad star". Moreover, if Muslim countries will shift to sidereal
calendar, than Ramadan fasting can be done in a certain period of year, not going
to the hottest months. This is very important considering that most of these
countries are located in the southern regions of the Earth, and dehydration (it is not
allowed to drink even water during) can seriously damage the health of believers.
Of course, this scientific opinion on the Prophet Mohammad birthday
celebration can meet the first negative perception by Muslims, but if we look in the